Reflecting on the Blackfoot-Clearwater Wildlife Management Area

While researching the history of the Blackfoot-Clearwater Wildlife Management Area (Game Range), local nonprofit Protect the Clearwater (PTC) found an article written by Jay Kolbe in 2007. Kolbe was the Wildlife Management Area Manager and Wildlife Biologist for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) for the area at that time. PTC feels this article highlights the critical role the Game Range plays and is worth reprinting.

When the Clearwater Resource Council met this summer to identify some of the "jewels of the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem" to explore in a series of Pathfinder articles ove...